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THE SHERIFF's POSSE FIRED THE
SHOTS AT PATTERSONVILLE.

Movement Toward His Hip Pocket
by a Negro Provoked the Shooting
The Blacks Had Threatened to Burn
the Town That Night--A State OF
Siege.
New ORLEANS, La, Nov. "A special
to the TimesDemoordt from Patterson
vile says: This town was profoundly
quiet yesterday, many of the negroes, who
form majority of the population, having
cleared out in consequence of the affair OF
Saturday afternoon. OF that affair every
body has different story to tell The fol-
lowing are the conclusions arrived at, after
some pains and careful consideration:
Trouble had been threatening in this neigh
borhood for some time past The negroes
had been talking freely of burning the
town of Pattersonville. 1t is stated that
one who is now prisoner made full con-
fession to Hon. Don Caffrey of a
plot to burn the town, which was to have
been carried into effect Saturday night, but
the events of Saturday afternoon pre-
vented. Mr.. Catfrey went to Franklin on
the afternoon train and has not, therefore,
been interviewed. The shooting and wound
ing of four white men on Phar's plantation
on Friday decided the authorities here to in
stitute search for arms in the town, and
at the same time to arrest several men who
had made themselves most conspicuous by
the loudness and ferocity of their threats.
THE MARCH ON THE TOWN
THE troops were quartered on steam
boats lying alongside Williams saw mill,
about mile from the town. From there
Saturday afternoon between and o'clock
the Attakpas rangers under command Of
Capt, Cade, together with a posse of citi-
zens, partly from this neighborhood and
partly from Franklin, moved on the town.
There are several versions of what after
ward occurred. The correct story is prob
ably this: at the entrance TO the town stand
two cottages, the one on the right occupied
by white man named HILBERT, and the
one on the left by colored people. Here as
the troops approached they found crowd
OF nearly one hundred excited negroes
assembled. This crowd was ordered to dis
perse. and some of the members of the mob
left. while others remained and assumed a
defiant attitude. One negro OF notorious
character threw his hand behind him as if
to draw pistol, and then in moment the
whole affair was over. A regular fusilade
was opened upon the negroes by the Sheriffs
posse, and four of them were shot dead
THE TROOPS DIDN'T FIRE.
1T is asserted by the militia, and with
considerable positiveness by some of them,
that no militia man fired shot, and that
all the killing was done by the Sheriff7s
posse Capt Cade seems to have had great
difficulty in restraining his TelT from firing,
but he appears to have succeeded Besides
the four negroes killed, one was very se-
verely wounded. Two boys are also said to
have been hit. The Sheriff withdrew as
soon as the firing began. After the affray
the troops marched through the
town, and many of the negroes
retired to the woods. The number
Of shots fired is variously estimated at from
forty TO 100, but the firing was by no means
indiscriminate. Thefour men killed were all
bad characters. Their names were Walsh
and Dolph Anderson, brothers, Lewis
Cooper, a brother-in-law of the Andersons,
and Robert Wrenn, negro saloon keeper,
who killed man a few weeks ago within a
few yards OF the place where he was shot
The dead were buried yesterday by the
troops. The town was guarded and pa
trolled by cav Try and infantry last night
1t was impossible TO move in any direction
without being challenged"
NO NEW ASPECTS
A dispatch from Houma says the strike
has assumed no new aspects since Saturday.
On several plantations evictions were made
this morning without difficulty. Laborers
from abroad are pouring into this section
to take the places of the strikers. The
planters are confident of resuming opera
tions this week. The presence Of the militia
has had most wholesome influence in pre-
venting disorder and violence
A dispatch from Franklin says: "Most of
the plantations between Pattersonville and
Tigervile have resumed work, though as a
rule with short force The men working
were, in most instances, strikers who have
receded from their demands The Patter-
sonville negroes are still badly scared and
many Of them remain out in the woods"
A dispatch from Pattersonville says that
the strike in that section is over, all hands
having resumed work
A special from Plaquemine, La, says:
"The strike of the laborers on the planta-
tions has reached this parish Only one
plantation, the Evergreen IS 80 far
affected Should the strike spread and con-
tinue the planters will suffer to great ex-
tent, as the larger portion Of the crop of
Iberville parish is still in the fields"
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